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OFFICE,  104  E.  Eighth  St.,         CHATTANOOGA,  TENN. 


J.   W.  ADAMS,  President.  H.   C.  BECK,  Sec'y  and  Treas. 

T.  D.   YOUNG,  Gen' I  Attorney.  ISAAC  C.  BREWER,    Engineer. 

BOSTON  •  CHATTANOOGA  SYNDICATE. 


Organized  Under  the  Laws  of  New  Hampshire. 


CAPITAL,  $1,000,000,  ALL  PAID  UP.    :. 


OFFICE,  104  E.  Eighth  Street,  —AND-  Booms  B2  &  53  Equitable  B'ld'g, 

CHATTANOOGA,  TENN.  BOSTON,  MASS. 


UNO.   W.  CANDLER,  Prest.  A.  J.  HODDER,  V.  Prest.  &  Gen.  Mgr. 

I.  A.  EVANS,   Treasurer.  J.  C.  McCHESNEY,  Secretary.  ' 

ISAAC  C.  BREWER,  Engineer. 


This   Syndicate,    is    the   purchaser    of   a    controling    interest    in  the 
Chattanooga  Land,  Coal,  Iron  and  Railway  Company. 


Chattanooga  Western  Railway  Go, 


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Created  to  construct  a  STANDARD  GAUGE  RAILWAY  from 

CHATTANOOGA  to  and  upon  the  top  of 

WALDEN'S   RIDGE. 


OFFICE,  104  East  Eighth  Street,         CHATTANOOGA,  TENN. 


A.  J.  HODDER,  President.  J.   W.   CANDLER,  Vice  President. 

H.  C.  BECK,  Secretary.  JNO.  C.  McCHESNEY,  Treasurer. 

ISAAC  C.  BREWER,  Engineer. 


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SOUTHERN  RESOURCES 


AND  ESPECIALLY  OF  THE  MAE7BLOUS 


CITY  OF  CHATTANOOGA,! 


TENNESSEE,  AND  VICINITY. 


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Real  Estate  Brokers, 


Chattanooga,  TTenn. 

REFERENCES. 

THIRD  NATIONAL  BANK.        -  ~  *~  - 
THE  TRUST  &  BANKING   CO., 

Long  Leaf  Yellow  Pine  and  Hardwood  Timber  Lands, 
Mineral  Lands,  City  and  Suburban  Property,  Improved  and 
Unimproved,  Truck,  Fruit  and  Dairy  Farms. 

Our  property  list  is  very  large  and  complete,  embracing  over 
6,000,000  acres  of  timber  and  mineral  lands  in  tracts  of  from 
1,000  tono,000  acres,  and  ranging  in  price  from  75  cents  upwards 
per  aare. 

We  also  have  city  and  suburban  property  of  every  description 
for  sale,  and  can  suit  any  purse. 

$fF~  We  make  a  specialty  of  bargains  in  real  estate,  and 
always  have  good  bargains  on  hand  to  offer  to  customers. 

We  are  prepared  to  furnish,  free  of  cost,  unexcelled  sites  for 
the  location  of<n-ew.enteKpvij$s^and  manufactories  of  merit,  and 
established  manufactories  'desiring  to  change  their  plants  to  a 
better  locattoW.  »*  5.  *";>,.*  ';'  ;  .*  V 

No  other  section  on  the  continent  offers  such  large  and  certain 
profits  for  the  investment  of  capital,  or  such  tempting  locations 
for  homes  or  business  to  men  of  moderate  means,  and  energy,  as 
this  great  Southland. 

Correspondence  solicited,  and  prompt  attention  given  to 
inquiries. 

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INTRODUCTORY. 

The  Southern  States,  until  quite  recently,  have  been  in  the 
surprising  and  paradoxical  position  of  a  country  of  wonderful 
and  unequalled  natural  resources  almost  wholly  undeveloped  and 
in  their  primeval  state,  in  the  very  midst  of  an  old,  settled,  intelli- 
gent and  highly  civilized  community.  It  is  not  necessary,  nor  is 
it  within  the  scope  of  this  article,  to  inquire  into  the  causes  of 
this  state  of  things.  We  must  "be  brief,  and  we  content  ourselves 
with  the  statement  of  the  bare  fact.  That  it  is  a  fact  is  so  palpa- 
ble to  everyone  in  the  least  familiar  with  the  developments  made 
in  those  states  within  the  past  ten  years  that  it  needs  only  to  be 
stated  to  be  fully  recognized  and  approved  by  them. 

To  those  not  familiar  with  these  develoments  we  give 
such  facts,  figures  and  authorities  as  will,  we  think,  convince  them 
of  the  truth  of  what  we  say.  Our  purpose  is  to  start  inquiry 
among  those  who  are  seeking  for  new  homes  or  for  safe  and 
profitable  investments. 

To  such  persons  we  will,  upon  application,  send  the  com- 
pletest  details  upon  all  matters  concerning  the  South  and  its  re- 
sources upon  which  they  may  desire  information. 

Judge  Kelley,  of  Pennsylvania,  who  has  been  a  leading 
member  of  the  United  States  House  of  Representatives  for  more 
than  twenty-eight  years,  and  has  for  many  years  been  "the  father 
of  the  house,"  has  spent  a  great  deal  of  time  in  investigating 
southern  resources  and  is  probably  as  well  posted  upon  that  sub- 
ject as  any  man,  delivered  himself  in  a  recent  interview,  as  follows: 

In  answer  to  the  question,  "Do  you  think  the  southern  field 
broad  enough  to  afford  a  sufficiently  rapid  development  to  meet 
the  necessities  of  the  North  ?  "  he  said: 

"Most  assuredly.  In  the  closing  paragraph  of  my  little 
book,  'The  Old  South  and  the  New,'  two  sentences  have  caused 
me  much  questioning.  I  say  there,  'wealth  and  honor  are  in  the 
pathway  of  the  New  South,'  and  again,  'she  is  the  coming  Eldo- 
rado of  American  adventure.'  My  friends  have  thought  me  too 
sanguine.  But  the  states  south  of  the  Ohio  and  east  of  the  Misis- 
sippi  with  their  half  million  square  miles  of  area  contain  a  wealth 
great  enough  for  a  continent,  a  wealth  so  vast,  so  varied  in  its 
elements  and  character,  so  advantageously  placed  for  develop- 
ment, that  those  states  alone  can  sustain  a  population  far  greater 
than  that  of  the  United  States  to-day.  Their  products  would  be 
so  different  from  those  of  other  parts  of  the  country  as  to  afford 
the  most  profitable  exchange,  advantageous  to  all.  And  it  is  with- 
in those  states  that  we  must  find  the  new  and  greater  market  for 
the  northern  surplus,  whether  that  surplus  be  in  the  shape  of  the 
.accumulated  labor  of  the  past,  that  is  to  say  capital,  or  the  future 


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productions  of  labor,  or  of  labor  itself,  because  in  those  states 
more  than  elsewhere  the  conditions  of  success  exist. 

"As  to  the  rapidity  with  which  it  can  be  done  the  growth 
of  the  West  furnishes  the  best  answer.  It  was  the  building  up 
of  an  empire  in  the  West  that  relieved  and  enriched  the  East  as 
well  as  the  West.  The  enormous  surplus — the  plant — used  in 
that  task,  unparalleled  in  the  magnitude  of  the  work  and  the 
greatness  of  the  reward  to  all,  is  now  seeking  new  fields  of  in- 
vestment, and  there  is  no  spot  dn  earth  sufficient  for  it  and  within 
its  reach  but  the  South." 

"But  tell  me,  Judge,"  said  I,  "how  do  you  weigh  climatic 
influences,  the  mountainous  character  of  large  portions  of  the 
South,  and  the  labor  system  so  largely  composed  of  colored  peo- 
ple, as  obstacles  to  Southern  grc  wth  ?  " 

"I  have  traveled  much  in  the  South  since  the  war,"  said 
Judge  Kelley,  "and  have  been  keenly  interested  in  every  step  of 
progress  she  has  made,  and  eager  to  learn  all  I  could  of  southern 
resources  and  advantages.  I  have  urged  my  friends  to  go  there 
and  my  son  is  there  now,  with  all  that  he  possesses  embarked  in 
a  manufacturing  enterprise.  /  do  not  consider  that  there  ever 
existed  in  the  West,  great  as  its  'wealth  is,  anything  like  the  nat- 
ural wealth  of  the  South. 

"A  very  large  part  of  the  South  is  blessed  with  a  climate 
unexcelled,  if  equalled  elsewfiere  in  the  world.  As  to  the  moun- 
tainous region  of  the  South,  it  is  richer  in  natural  wealth,  and 
in  advantages  for  the  development  of  that  wealth,  it  has  a  finer 
climate,  better  water,  and  higher  conditions  of  health  than  any 
region  of  which  I  have  any  knowledge,  and  is  withal  one  of  the 
most  beautiful  regions  in  the  world." 

Professor  McCallie  in  his  geological  report  has  stated,  and 
his  statement  has  been  copied  and  endorsed  by  Harpers'  Weekly, 
in  Mr.  Milliard's  book  "The  New  South,"  and  by  other  re- 
sponsible authorities,  that  within  a  radius  of  one  hundred  miles 
from  the  city  of  Chattanooga  there  lies  buried,  but  within  easy 
reach,  mineral  wealth  to  the  stupendous  amount  of  over  one 
hundred  andfijty  thousand  millions  of  dollars.  ($150,000^00,000.) 

When  it  is  remembered  that  the  wThole  of  the  accumulated 
wealth  of  the  United  States,  according  to  the  census  of  1880, 
was  only  $43.000,000,000,  and  that  this  vast  sum  was  the  accum- 
ulations of  the  labor  of  many  millions  of  men  during  a  period  of 
over  one  hundred  years,  some  slight  idea  may  be  had  of  the  im- 
mensity of  the  fact  conveyed  in  Prof.  McCallie's  statement. 

Think  of  it  !  Try"  and  comprehend  it  !  The  statement 
above  made  upon  good  authority  is,  that  within  a  radius  of  one- 
hundred  miles  of  this  City  of  Chattanooga  there  lies  buried  and 
undeveloped,  but  easily  accessible,  three  and  one-half  times  as 
mttch  wealth  as  the  entire  valuation  of  all  the  property  of  the 
richest  nation  on  earth,  vast  as  those  accumulations  are.  And 
this  statement  of  southern  undeveloped  natural  resources  includes 
only  what  is  known  to  exist  beneath  the  earth's  surface,  and  takes 
no  account  wrhatever  of  the  almost  illimitable  forests  of  virgin 
timber  comprising  nearly  every  valuable  wood  which  grows  upon 
this  continent,  nor  of  the  prodigious  and  unequalled  agricultural 


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resources  of  this  great  South  land,  only  a  small  portion  of  which 
has  as  yet  been  touched. 

These  facts  point  as  unerringly  as  the  needle  to  the  pole  to 
this  section  as  the  place  where  a  dense  population  and  enormous 
wealth  are  bound  to  concentrate  in  the  near  future. 

"Where  the  treasure  is,  there  will  the  heart  be  also,"  and 
as  the  treasures  of  the  earth  are  concentrated  here  more  abun- 
dantly than  in  any  other  equal  space  on  earth,  conjoined  with  as 
mild  and  healthful  a  climate  as  can  be  anywhere  found,  together 
with  all  the  adjuncts  of  modern  civilization,  it  follows  as  surely 
as  that  water  will  run  down  hill,  that  this  section  has  only  to 
make  its  great  and  surpassing  advantages  known,  to  fill  it  up  with 
an  eager,  pushing  and  wealthy  population.  People  will  gravi- 
tate here  as  naturally  as  iron  is  drawn  toward  a  loadstone. 

As  a  corollary  to  all  this  it  follows  that  no  place  offers 
larger,  more  certain  and  rapid  returns  upon  investments  than  the 
South.  Many  people  have  already  seen  this  and  have  acted  upon 
their  information,  as  the  following  statistics  will  show : 

Increase  of  population  in  twelve  Southern  States  in  the 
past  eight  years,  2,582,000.  Increase  in  the  value  of  their  assessed 
property  in  the  same  period,  $1,304,000,000,  or  nearly  52  per  cent., 
and  of  this  increase  $275,000,000  was  added  during  the  year  just 
passed. 

The  figures  were  carefully  collected  by  the  Tradesman,  of 
Chattanooga,  and  are  believed  to  be  under,  rather  than  above  the 
real  facts. 

The  Tradesman  also  gives  a  list  of  2,614  new  industries 
that  were  started  in  the  South  during  the  year  1888.  Of  these, 
163  were  cotton  and  woolen  factories  ;  30  were  blast  furnaces  ; 
145  were  foundries  and  machine  shops  ;  483  were  wood -working 
plants  ;  217  mining  and  quarrying  ;  253  railroads  ;  87  street  rail- 
ways ;  and  74  electric  light  works.  In  addition  to  this  the  en- 
largement of  the  capacities  of  previously  existing  industries  in  the 
South,  necessitated  by  the  almost  universal  expansion  of  their 
business,  is  more  than  equivalent  to  the  whole  addition  of  new  in- 
dustries, and  it  has  been  stated  that  $168,000,000  was  thus  invested 
during  the  year  1888. 

CHATTANOOGA. 

Whoever  has  read,  reflected  upon  and  inwardly  digested 
the  foregoing  statements  concerning  the  prodigious  natural  re- 
sources surrounding  Chattanooga  will  have  no  difficulty  in  under- 
standing and  comprehending  the  causes  of  her  marvelous  growth 
within  the  past  few  years,  nor  why  it  is  that  she  is  the  "biggest 
city  of  her  size"  in  the  United  States  and  is  doing  a  business 
equal  to  that  of  cities  of  tw.ice  her  population.  Neither  will  they 
have  difficulty  in  understanding  the  confidence  of  her  people  and 
of  all  who  know  Chattanooga  well,  a  confidence  amounting  to 
almost  a  dead  certainty,  that  she  is  to  have  a  wonderful  future 
and  to  become  one  of  the  largest  and  wealthiest  cities  on  the'con- 
tinent.  We  hazard  nothing  in  saying  that  no  city  of  either  an- 
cient or  modern  times,  however  large  its  population  and  wealth, 
ever  had  a  foundation  of  greater,  surer  or  more  enduring  latent 


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wealth  surrounding  it  than  this  beautiful  city  of  Chattanooga. 

This  fact  alone,  if  there  were  no  other  reasons  or  advan- 
tages, would  warrant  and  render  certain  the  concentration  here 
of  an  immense  population  and  boundless  wealth  within  the  next 
few  years. 

But  there  are  many  other  things  that  will  hasten  Chatta- 
nooga's growth  and  make  it  rapid  and  permanent,  and  although 
we  cannot  spare  space  to  treat  this  subject  as  fully  as  we  would 
like,  we  will  enumerate  briefly  a  few  of  the  more  important  facts 
concerning  Chattanooga  for  the  general  information. 

CONCERNING  LOCATION. 

A  circle  with  a  radius  of  700  miles,  taking  Chattanooga  as 
a  center,  will  include  the  States  of  Tennessee,  Georgia,  Florida, 
Alabama,  Mississippi,  Louisiana,  Arkansas,  Missouri,  Kentucky, 
Illinois.  Indiana,  Ohio,  Virginia,  West  Virginia,  North  Carolina 
and  South  Carolina,  as  well  as  parts  of  Iowa,  Wisconsin,  Michi- 
gan, Pennsylvania  and  Maryland.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  her 
location  is  very  near  the  geographical  center  of  the  most  popu- 
lous and  wealthy  portion  of  the  United  States.  Locally,  her 
position  in  the  gap  of  the  mountains  running  northeast  and  south- 
west, and  about  half  way  between  the  Atlantic  ocean  and  the 
Mississippi  river,  renders  her  the  natural  gatewav  between  the 
North  and  the  South,  and  throws  her  directly  in  the  pathway  of 
the  mighty  commerce  between  those  two  great  sections. 

And  this  accounts  for  the  concentration  here  of  so  many 
railroads,  making  Chattanooga  the  greatest  railway  center  in  the 
South.  She  is  also  situated  at  a  point  which  is  practically  the 
head  of  navigation  of  the  Tennessee  river,  a  stream  of  as  great  a 
volume  of  water,  and  more  zmiformly  navigable  than  the  Ohio. 
Her  location  is  also  just  right  in  respect  to  climate,  being  remark- 
ably favorable  to  health,  avoiding  alike  the  excessive  cold  of  the 
Northern  winters  and  the  enervating  summer  heat  of  the  ex- 
treme South.  What  other  city  has  a  better  location,  all  things 
considered,  than  Chattanooga,  and  what  more  could  be  desired  in 
that  respect  ? 

TRANSPORTATION  AND  MARKETS. 

As  before  stated,  Chattanooga  being  situated  in  the  only 
gap  in  the  Cumberland  range  available  for  the  construction  of 
railroads,  they  have,  as  a  matter  of  necessity,  concentrated  here, 
and  at  this  time  nine  great  trunk  lines  center  at  this  point  and 
several  others  are  building,  notably  one  from  Augusta,  Ga.,  and 
one  to  Murphy,  N.  C.,  the  one  giving  a  short  line  to  the  Atlantic 
ocean  via  the  Savannah  river,  and  the  other  connecting  us  with 
the  North  Carolina  system  of  railroads.  Besides  these  lines  there 
are  the  Chattanooga  Southern  now  iii  process  of  construction  to 
Anniston,  Ala.;  the  Evans ville  and  Chattanooga  to  run  from 
Evansville,  Ind.,  to  Chattanooga;  the  Kansas  City,  Chattanooga 
and  Port  Royal,  to  run  from  Kansas  City  to  Port  Royal  on  the 
coast;  and  several  local  roads,  all  of  which  are  in  a  fair  way  to  be 
built  in  the  near  future.  As  a  consequence  Chattanooga  is  already 
doing  more  railroad  business  than  any  two  other  cities  in  the 


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South,  and  bids  fair  to  become  one  of  the  greatest  railroad  cen- 
ters in  the  United  States. 

These  lines  branch  out  like  the  spokes  of  an  immense 
wheel,  giving  direct  and  rapid  communication  with  all  points  on 
the  continent. 

The  Tennessee  river,  the  full  navigation  of  which  is  only 
prevented  by  the  Muscle  Shoals,  near  Decatur,  Alabama,  around 
which  the  United  States  government  is  building  a  canal  to  be  fin- 
ished within  a  few  months,  is  an  extremely  important  means  of 
transportation  and  will  be  a  controling  factor  in  determining  rates 
of  freight,  especially  of  such  heavy  and  bulky  articles  as  coal, 
iron,  lumber,  cotton,  hay  and  many  other  important  products  of 
Chattanooga  and  vicinity. 

With  the  removal  of  the  above  mentioned  obstructions, 
Chattanooga  ivill  have  direct  ^vater  communication  iuith  New 
Orleans,  Louisville,  Cincinnati,  Pittsburgh  St.  Louis,  St.  Paul, 
Kansas  City  and  nearly  all  interior  -points  on  the  continent. 

Thus  wfth  the  river  and  the  railroads  at  our  command  we 
shall  have  unsurpassed  facilities  for  reaching  the  the  markets  of 
the  whole  world  and  for  the  disposal  of  our  products  however  vast 
they  may  become. 

INTERNAL  TRANSIT. 

Chattanooga  has,  probably,  the  most  complete  system  of 
internal  and  suburban  railway  transit  in  the  United  States. 

Besides  the  twenty-one  miles  of  horse  railways  permeat- 
ing nearly  every  part  of  the  city,  she  has  the  Union  Railway,  a 
broadgauge  steam  railroad,  built  exclusively  for  city  and  suburban 
transit.  This  railroad  starts  from  a  depot  centrally  located  and 
runs  out  into  the  valley  in  five  different  directions  like  the  out- 
spread fingers  of  one's  hand.  It  has  forty-four  miles  of  track 
now  in  operation  and  is  rapidly  being  extended  to  accommodate 
the  new  and  fast  growing  suburbs.  It  runs  125  trains  per  day 
for  the  exclusive  accommodation  of  passengers.  Two  years  ago 
the  points  to  which  it  runs  were  simply  cultivated  farms  with 
houses  at  long  intervals.  Now  these  farms  are  turned  into  thriv- 
ing villages  aggregating  some  10,000  souls,  and  the  railway  trans- 
ported during  the  year  1888  about  1,500,000  people,  and  trans- 
ferred over  150,000  freight  cars.  The  road  connects  directly  with 
every  railroad  entering  the  city,  and  has  tracks  to  over  100  of  the 
principal  manufactories  and  other  establishments.  It  also  con- 
nects with  the  incline  and  the  broadgauge  railroad  running  up 
Lookout  Mountain,  so  that  one  can  take  a  sleeping  car,  say  at 
Cincinnati,  and  be  taken  directly  to  the  top  of  the  mountain  with- 
out change  of  cars. 

In  addition  to  the  above  means  of  transit  an  electric  street 
railway  is  now  completed  and  in  operaton  from  the  heart  of  the 
city  to  the  top  of  Missionary  Riclge,  and  will  eventually  be  ex- 
tended to  the  Chickamauga  battle  field,  a  distance  of  about  eight 
miles,  where  a  national  park  commemorating' that  great  battle  is 
about  to  be  laid  out. 

An  incline  and  an  electric  railway  are  also  about  to  be 
built  to  the  top  of  Cameron  Hill  within  the  city. 


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GROWTH  AND  BUSINESS. 

Patrick  Henry  said:  "There  is  no  way  of  judging  the  fu- 
ture but  by  the  past."  Patrick  was  right.  Applying  this  maxim 
to  the  case  in  point  we  present  a  table  showing  Chattanooga's 
population  at  several  different  periods  in  order  to  judge  of  her 
probable  future  growth: 


1860 2,545 

1870 6,091 

1880 12,879 


1885 25,069 

1886 29.703 

1887 36,901 


July  first,  1888,  the  population  was  46.371,  as  shown  by  the 
directory,  and  at  this  time  it  is  believed  to  be  over  55,000. 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  Chattanooga  has  more  than  dou- 
bled her  population  within  the  past  three  years,  and  if  this  rate  of 
growth  were  to  continue  for  the  next  twelve  years,  she  would 
have  in  the  year  1900  over  800,000  inhabitants.  This,  of  course, 
is  not  claimed,  but  the  increase  of  her  population  h^s  been  healthy 
and  regular  for  the  past  eight  years,  and  on  account  of  the  facts 
previously  given  of  the  unparalleled  natural  resources  surround- 
ing her,  and  the  immense  advantages  she  possesses  in  the  way  of 
location,  transportation,  etc.,  we  confidently  expect  to  see  her  a 
very  large  and  populous  city  at  that  time,  possibly  400,000  or 
more. 

The  business  of  Chattanooga  has  largely  exceeded  her 
growth  in  population,  phenomenal  as  that  growth  has  been. 

Statistics  collected  in  June  last,  and  published  in  the  Chat- 
nooga  Times'  great  anniversary  edition  July  i,  1888,  showed  that 
there  were  at  that  time  152  manufacturing  establishments  having 
an  aggregate  capital  of  $8,712,000,  and  employing  8,423  hands. 

Their  annual  output  was  $10,655,000,  and  they  paid  in 
wages  $3,333,000. 

This  does  not  include  thirteen  blast  furnaces,  a  great  num- 
ber .of  mines  and  many  other  industries  situated  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  city  and  tributary  to  it,  which  if  included,  would  swell  the 
above  figures  at  least  100  per  cent. 

At  that  time  R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.  reported  fifty  exclusively 
wholesale  houses  in  Chattanooga,  and  credited  her  merchants 
with  capital  amounting  to  $25,000,000.  Such  a  thing  as  an  im- 
portant failure  is  not  known  in  this  giant  young  city. 

The  assessment  roll  of  Chattanooga  increased  from  $3,295,- 
ooo  in  1880  to  $12,323,000  in  1887,  an  average  annual  increase  of 
$1,289,000.  This  assessment  is  low,  it  being  the  policy  of  the  city 
to  encourage  all  industrial  exterprises  by  placing  a  merely  nomi- 
nal valuation  on  their  plants  and  property  for  purposes  of  taxa- 
tion. 

The  real  estate  business  increased  from  $398,000  in  1875  ^° 
$803,000  in  1885,  and  to  $3,018,000  in  1888.  This  is  a  decidedly 
healthy  increase,  the  sales  of  1888  aggregating  nearly  four  times 
those  of  1885. 

The  business  of  Chattanooga  for  1888  was  enormous  for  a 
city  of  its  size.  The  bank  receipts  were  $54,000,000. 

The  commercial  transactions  foot  up  $50,100,000  as  stated 
by  R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.  The  recorded  real  estate  transactions  show 


EPITOME  OF  SOUTHERN  RESOURCES. 


$3,018,000,  and  this  is  only  a  portion  of  the  year's  business  in  this 
line,  as  it  does  not  include  the  vast  amount  of  sales  of  farming, 
mineral  and  timber  lands  lying  outside  of  Hamilton  county,  which 
if  included,  would  make  the  real  estate  transactions  of  iSSS  at  least 
$5,000,000. 

The  building  and  other  improvements  during  1888,  as  esti- 
mated by  The  Tradesman,  required  the  investment  of  over  $3,- 
000,000. " 

A  bill  prepared  by  the  business  men  of  Chattanooga  has 
just  become  a  law  enabling  the  city  to  issue  bonds  for  sewers  and 
street  improvements  to  the  amount  of  $700,000.  This  has  been 
voted  upon  by  the  citizens  and  carried  by  a  vote  of  3,600  to  100. 
This  is  another  strong  proof,  not  only  of  the  active  public  spirit 
of  her  citizens,  but  also  of  their  unbounded  faith  in  her  future 
growth  and  permanence. 

These  are  a  few  of  the  general  facts  indicative  of  the  rapid 
growth  of  the  city,  and  they  show  an  increase  in  her  business  of 
over  100  per  cent,  above  that  of  two  years  ago. 

It  is  not  the  result  of  any  "spurt"  or  "boom,"  but  is  simply 
a  normal  and  healthy  growth  in  keeping  with  her  record  in  pre- 
vious years  and  fully  warranted  by  the  facts  heretofore  set  forth, 
and  may  be  reasonably  assumed  to  indicate  what  may  be  ex- 
pected of  her  future  development. 

CLIMATE  AND  HEALTH 

The  climate  of  Chattanooga  would  be  hard  to  beat,  either 
for  salubrity  or  comfort.  '  Her  situation  gives  her  that  golden 
mean  between  the  frigid  Northern  winters  and  the  fervent  sum- 
mers of  the  extreme  South,  which,  while  it  gives  sufficient  frost 
to  tone  up  the  system  and  puts  life  and  energy  into  one's  blood, 
yet  avoids  the  dangers  and  discomforts  attending  extremes  of 
temperature,  and  makes  existence  a  pleasure  at  all  times. 

Even  Nashville  and  other  places  in  nearly  the  same  lati- 
tude cannot  compare  with  Chattanooga  in  winter  climate,  they 
being  exposed  to  the  full  effect  of  the  cutting  wintry  blasts  and 
cold  waves  from  the  North,  while  she  is  protected  from  such  vis- 
itations by  the  great  Cumberland  range  on  the  north  and  west 
sides.  At  the  same  time  the  gap  in  the  mountains  directly  south 
of  her  acts  as  a  sort  of  funnel  to  collect  and  pour  in  upon  her 
the  balmy  and  cooling  Southern  breezes  and  mitigate  the  heats  of 
summer. 

If,  at  any  time,  the  heat  should  become  too  intense,  her 
citizens  can  always  secure  relief  in  forty  minutes  of  from  eight  to 
ten  degrees  in  temperature  by  hieing  themselves  via  the  broad- 
gauge  or  incline  railway  to  the  top  of  Lookout  Mountain,  1,700 
feet  above  the  city,  where  balmy  breezes  always  blow  and  epi- 
demic diseases  can  never  come. 

Within  the  past  few  years  an  excellent  system  of  sewerage 
has  been  perfected  and  laid  in  Chattanooga  and  the  health  of  the 
city  has  thereby  been  greatly  improved.  The  death  rate  among 
the  whites  is  now  only  1 1.77  per  thousand  inhabitants.  This  is 
far  below  the  death  rate  of  American  cities  generally,  and  we  be- 
lieve we  are  safe  in  saying  that  Chattanooga  is  not  surpassed  by 
any  city  of  her  size  in  general  healthfulness. 


10  W.   C.  GREEN  &  CO.'S 


CHATTANOOGA  AS  A  PLACE  OF  RESIDENCE. 

A  stranger  visiting  Chattanooga  at  this  time  will  find  a 
city  of  over  50,000  active,  thriving,  ambitious  and  public  spirited 
citizens,  a  very  large  portion  of  whom  are  of  Northern  birth. 
Nowhere  will  he  meet  a  heartier  welcome  or  be  treated  in  a  more 
friendly  spirit.  He  will  find  a  Christian  and  church-going  com- 
munity with  many  and  beautiful  churches  in  which  to  worship. 
He  will  find  a  system  of  public  schools  in  every  way  excellent, 
He  will  find  a  peace-loving,  law-abiding  and  commercial  people, 
well  and  economically  governed.  He  will  find  a  city  with  excel- 
lent drainage  and  water  systems,  wrell  lighted,  with  an  efficient 
fire  department  and  police  force,  a  city  where  life  and  property 
are  unusually  safe,  with  horse-power,  electric  and  steam  power 
railways  giving  unequalled  means  of  internal  transit.  In  brief,  he 
will  find  a  large,  intelligent  and  refined  community  enjoying  all 
the  comforts  and  conveniences  of  modern  civilization. 

This  city,  so  constituted,  this  visitor  will  find  located  in  a 
lovely  and  fruitful  valley,  upon  the  banks  of  one  of  the  grandest 
and  most  beautiful  rivers  on  the  continent,  and  in  the  midst  of 
scenery  scarcely  equalled  in  the  world  for  picturesque  beauty — 
scenery  to  which  an  additional  interest  attaches  and  which  has 
been  made  forever  memorable  by  the  "battle  above  the  clouds" 
and  the  other  great  conflicts  which  took  place  in  the  valleys  and 
upon  the  nsighboring  heights  only  a  few  short  years  ago. 

As  illustrating  the  celebrity  this  neighborhood  has  attained 
through  these  historic  events  we  might  well  paraphrase  \Vebster's 
grand  and  eloquent  eulogy  upon  Massachusetts,  and  say:  "There 
are  Lookout  Mountain,  and  Missionary  Ridge,  and  Chickamauga, 
and  there  they  will  remain  forever."  Our  city  is  inclissolubly  and 
forever  associated  with  these  great  events  and  this  fact  will  al- 
ways give  her  an  additional  attractiveness  and  redound  to  her 
advantage. 

Add  to  the  foregoing  that  Chattanooga  has  a  most  delight- 
ful and  healthful  climate,  that  she  is  surrounded  literally  with 
mountains  of  latent  wealth  only  awaiting  the  magic  touch  of  labor 
and  capital  to  develop  it  and  enrich  her  citizens;  that  she  offers 
the  largest  and  most  certain  rewards,  both  for  individual  exertion 
and  invested  capital,  and  what  more  could  be  desired  of  her  as 
a  place  of  residence  ? 

We  cannot  close  this  article  about  the  future  of  Chatta- 
nooga without  quoting  some  of  the  remarks  made  by  Hon.  A.  S. 
Hewitt  before  our  Chamber  of  Commerce  during  a  recent  visit 
to  this  city.  Mr.  Hewitt  is  a  noted  man,  both  in  the  councils  of 
the  nation  and  in  the*  business  world.  He  is  a  great  iron  master 
and  a  keen  and  far  seeing  business  man,  and  his  remarkable  state- 
ments of  the  great  and  undeniable  advantages  which  Chattanoo- 
ga possesses,  and  prophecy  of  her  future  greatness,  coming  as 
they  do  from  an  unprejudiced  outside  observer,  will  show  at  once 
that  the  claims  we  make  for  her  are  not  too  large.  In  the  speech 
referred  to  Mr.  Hewitt  said: 

"Chattanooga  is  undoubtedly  the  key  to  the  South,  and  as 
such  lies  in  the  path  of  a  still  greater  line  of  wonderful  develop- 
ment. It  is  customary  for  cities  and  railroads  to  get  out  maps 


EPITOME  OF  SOUTHERN  RESOURCES.  11 

representing  their  cities  as  the  centers  of  the  universe,  with  New 
York  and  other  points  lying  in  the  remote  margins.  Chattanooga, 
if  she  develops  as  I  predict  she  is  going  to,  will  some  day  be 
justified  in  drawing  such  a  map  to  represent  her  greatness.  Na- 
ture did  much  for  New  York,  but  she  has  done  more  for  Chatta- 
nooga from  whose  natural  advantages  she  has  barre.d  our  city  by 
the  great  barrier,  the  Allegheny  mountains. 

"I  know  but  little  of  the  South,  except  what  I  have  read 
in  books  and  speeches,  but  from  what  I  have  seen,  I  cannot  con- 
ceive of  any  combination  of  natural  advantages  which  could  by 
any  possibility  form  a  better  basis  for  magnificent  growth  and 
prosperity.  Situated  as  it  is  on  a  splendid  river,  which  here 
forms  a  natural  gateway  between  the  regions  of  the  central  South 
and  of  the  gulf  states,  opening  up  to  you  are  the  vast  treasures 
with  which  the  South  is  so  richly  and'  generously  endowed  by 
the  benificent  hand  of  nature.  Add  to  these  resources  the  im- 
mense graneries  which  lie  to  the  west  of  you,  and  no  words  can 
foretell  the  possibilities  of  the  future. 

******** 

"The  growth  of  New  York  from  a  town  of  21,000  people 
one  hundred  years  ago  to  a  city  of  1,500,000  has  been  remarkable, 
but  I  predict,  after  a  careful  study  and  deliberation  of  the  condi- 
tions surrounding  it,  that  there  are  places  in  the  South  which,  100 
years  hence,  will  surpass  the  growth  of  New  York  in  the  century 
that  is  past,  and  Chattanooga  is  more  likely  to  be  that  point  than 
any  city  that  I  knoiv  of." 

THE  SUBURBS. 

Speaking  of  these  an  observant  and  brilliant  writer  in  the 
New  York  World  says:-  "The  bluff  sides  of  Lookout,  the  his- 
torical battle-field  above  the  clouds,  are  traversed  by  two  rail- 
ways-. The  summit  is  graced  by  a  handsome  hotel,  magnificent 
in  every  appointment,  but  soon  to  be  rivaled  by  a  larger,  a  veri- 
table 'mansion  in  the  skies.' 

"This  is  the  place  for  temporary  retreat  for  the  citizens  as 
well  as  for  all  tourists.  And  what  a  delightful  spot  it  is!  But 
over  the  river  the  lovely  highlands  which  skirt  the  shore  almost 
down  to  its  great  bend,  where  the  grand  old  Lookout  sends 
it  to  the  northward,  is  the  place  where  the  new  city  is  to  be 
built.  Its  shore  lands  for  fifteen  miles  upon  the  deep  water 
side  are  places  for  large  manufacturing  establishments,  such  as 
command  the  admiration  of  all.  These  highlands  are  a  congeries 
of  hills,  which  form  most  beautiful  building  sites.  What  homes 
for  the  workman!  healthful,  beautiful,  fertile,  commanding  posi- 
tions such  as  princes  might  envy. 

"I  know  of  no  such  place  in  all  this  country  for  a  thousand 
manufactories,  and  domiciles  for  the  tens  of  thousands  of  their 
thriving  proprietors  and  workmen.  In  the  growth  of  this  place — 
right  here,  within  the  limits  of  this  great  bend  and  the  co-termin- 
ous  region  for  some  miles,  will  soon  arise^one  of  the  most  exten- 
sive concentrated  industrial  centers  in  the  world.  I  am  not  alone 
in  this  opinion;  indeed,  I  but  reiterate  the  views  of  an  eminent 
English  manufacturer  and  successful  business  man,  who  had  ex- 
amined this  locality. 


$2  W.  C.  GREEN  &  CO.'S 


"Another  most  attractive  attribute  of  this  place,  considered 
as  a  great  city,  is  the  opportunity  for  laying  out  extensive,  easily 
accessible  and  most  charming  suburbs.  A  great  spur  of  the 
Cumberland  mountains  stands  right  out  strong  and  clear  from  the 
main  range,  extending  for  over  a  hundred  miles  to  within  three  or 
four  miles  of  this  place. 

"This  is  WALDEN'S  RIDGE,  a  wonderful  piece  of  terra  firma. 
Although  a  mountain,  its  whole  surface  is  gently  undulating.  It 
is  fertile  and  well  timbered  and  has  many  perpetual  streams  of 
pure  water  breaking  through  its  palisades  into  the  valleys;  it  is 
enriched  with  innumerable,  never-failing  springs,  some  of  them 
regarded  as  of  great  medicinal  merit.  The  cool  and  refreshing 
breezes  from  the  Cumberland  heads  make  it  the  very  perfection 
of  summer  resorts.  The  latitude  tells  how  free  it  is  from  the 
severities  of  Winter.  For  years  it  has  been  known  as  a  'natural 
sanitarium,'  and  has  been  the  happy  rendezvous  of  the  scorched, 
malaria-scourged  and  fever-afflicted  denizens  of  the  Gulf  States. 

"'Lookout  has  been  sung  in  song  and  story  by  poets  and 
sages;  strange  that  Walden's  Ridge  should  have  been  passed  by 
except  for  its  historic  reminiscences.  This  beautiful  mountain 
cannot  be  described  by  any  Eastern  analogy.  Afar  rise  one  after 
another  the  mountains  of  Tennessee,  Georgia,  Kentucky,  the 
Carolinas  and  Virginia.  No  other  mountain  view  has  ever  so 
impressed  me.  While  Lookout  presents  something  grand,  and 
you  realize  that  it  is  beyond  doubt  a  big  mountain,  you  feel  in 
your  soul  when  you  stand  at  Signal  Point  on  Walden's  Ridge 
an  inspiration  which  makes  you  bow  your  head  in  reverence. 

"Underneath  this  charming  surface,  and  easily  accessible, 
lie  three  workable  veins  of  merchantable  coking  coal — an  inex- 
haustible supply.  The  integrity  of  these  beds  is  shown  by  the 
outcropping  upon  each  side  of  the  mountain.  Associated  with 
these  are  valuable  hematite  iron  ores,  limestone  and  marble,  beau- 
tiful building  stone  and  merchantable  manufacturing  clays.  What 
a  very  mountain  of  wealth!  And  in  such  a  locality,  with  the  fat 
valleys  which  separate  it  from  the  great  ranges  and  proximate  to 
such  a  thriving  manufacturing  city  as  Chattanooga.  There  is  no 
possibility  of  estimating  its  value.  Nature  could  hardly  have 
placed  things  better  than  they  are  here  for  what  we  have  claimed 
must  happen  at  this  place.  Out  of  this  mountain  will  come  an 
enormous  commerce.  We  need  not  speculate  upon  tons  of  coal 
or  manufactories  of  coke  and  train  loads  of  ore  and  stone.  They 
will  readily  pass  before  the  vision  of  the  million  and  a  half  read- 
ers of  the  World,  but  we  may  forecast,  or  rather  positively  assert, 
the  future  of  this  lovely  spot.  It  is  the  coming  suburb  of  Chatta- 
nooga, old  and  new,  and  the  charmed  retreat  for  the  citizens  of 
all  its  other  environs.  It  possesses  grand  magnificent  scenery 
and  capabilities  of  artistic  embellishment,  besides  other  attractive 
and  useful  features  such  as  no  other  city  can  claim.  The  time  is 
not  far  distant  when  the  southern  part  of  this  mountain  will  be- 
come the  seat  of  the  most  beautiful  homes  in  the  country.  The 
stately  mansion  and  the  fanciful  French  cottage,  the  Swiss  chalet 
.and  the  light,  airy  pagoda,  the  castellated  dome  of  mediaeval  Eu- 
rope, the  palatial  piles  of  England  and  the  composite  architecture 


EPITOME  OF  SOUTHERN  RESOURCES.  13 

of  America  can  each  find  fitting  surroundings  upon  this  moun- 
tain top.  It  is  a  royal  place  for  beautiful  and  extensive  drives, 
for  fountains  and  wood-concealed  lakes,  and  picturesque  parks 
and  lovely  gardens.  Nature  has  done  more  than  half  the  work.'7 

A  well  known  and  very  able  literary  gentleman  of  Bostonr 
writing  in  the  Herald  of  that  city,  upon  the  possibilities  of  Chat- 
tanooga suburbs,  says: 

THE  DRIVE  TO  WALDEN'S  RIDGE 

is  one  to  be  remembered/  We  Bostonians  are  rather  proud  of 
our  suburban  roads,  but  we  must  yield  the  palm  to  Chattanooga. 
The  gravel  abounding  hereabouts,  and  which  is  used  to  form  the 
road  surface,  packs  with  such  firmness  and  smoothness  as  not  to 
show  the  traces  of  the  wheels  that  pass  over  it,  making  driveways 
comparable  to  the  best  maintained  park  roads.  They  dry  imme- 
diately after  a  rain,  and  there  are  no  winter  frosts  to  heave  them 
up  and  disintegrate  them.  For  much  of  the  way  our  road  is  the 
same  that  was  constructed  by  Gen.  Grant  to  haul  the  supplies  for 
the  Union  army  in  Chattanooga  across  Walden's  Ridge  from  the 
surpassingly  fertile  Sequachee  valley,  lying  between  the  Ridge 
and  Cumberland  Mountain.  The  road  runs  through  almost  ideal 
rural  and  sylvan  scenery;  pleasant  fields  and  meadows,  lovely 
glens  and  fragrant  woodland.  At  the  foot  of  the  steep  face  of 
the  ridge  the  way  begins  to  climb  along  the  mountain  side,  with 
the  gray  rocks  towering  irregularly  above,  richly  mantled  with 
vegetation  in  this  friendly  southern  climate;  glossy  leaved  masses 
of  evergreen  grouped  in  rich  contrast  with  the  delicate  ferns, 
amidst  which  here  and  there  tiny  veins  of  water  come  trickling 
down  out  of  the  crevices.  Wreathing  the  brow  of  some  ledge, 
the  exquisite  clusters  of  the  mountain  laurel  show  lustrously  out 
of  the  woodland  shadow — if  we  are  to  have  a  national  flower, 
it  should  by  all  means  be  this  glorious  blossom  with  its  perfect 
form,  its  purity  of  color;  fit  emblem  of  liberty,  developing  its  rare 
•beauty  in  the  freedom  of  its  growth  upon  the  free  hills  of  our 
country  from  south  to  north.  We  feel  as  if  living  in  some  passage 
of  Charles  Egbert  Craddock's  stories,  and  as  the  landscape  framed 
in  the  openings  of  the  trees  expands  with  our  ascent,  we  see  the 
Great  Smoky  Mountains  to  the  eastward,  lofty  and  grand  in  the 
blue  distance,  the  land  and  the  inspiration  of  those  strong  tales. 
Arrived  at  the  summit,  the  view  is  inexpressibly  impressive,  a 
rare  commingling  of  loveliness  and  grandeur. 

The  character  of  the  landscape  is  park-like  in  the  noblest 
sense — the  undulating  valley,  with  its  diversities  of  field  and  for- 
est, its  beautiful  tree  groups,  the  silvery  band  of  the  meandering 
river  appearing  and  disappearing  among  the  hills,  and  the  moun- 
tains near  and  far,  not  crowding  the  landscape  or  asserting  them- 
selves, but  so  distributed  as  to  give  an  effect  of  vast  breadth  to 
the  country,  whose  expanse  may  be  indicated  when  it  is  said  that 
from  certain  points  on  these  heights  there  may  be  seen  seven 

freat    states,    Tennessee,    Kentucky,  Virginia,     North    Carolina, 
outh  Carolina,  Georgia  and  Alabama.     Along  the  verge  of  the 
plateau,  which  is  covered  with  a  forest  of  mingled  hardwood  and 
conifer?,  a  road  has  been  cut  through  the  timber  for  a  distance  of 


U  IV.  C.  GREEN  &  CO.'S 


three  or  four  miles.  With  the  development  of  the  mountain  prop- 
erty, this  is  to  become  a  finely  constructed  driveway,  making  one( 
of  the  grandest  situated  pleasure-ways  in  the  world,  with  the  pan- 
orama of  the  Tennessee  valley  constantly  in  view,  and  new  fea- 
tures of  interest  ever  unfolding.  The  scene  from  the  southern 
point  of  Walden's  Ridge  is  particularly  notable.  It  is  a  comple- 
ment to  the  view  from  Lookout  Mountain,  which  rises  but  a  short 
•distance  up  stream.  Here,  too,  the  Tennessee  flows  at  our  feet, 
and  we  look  almost  directly  down  upon  a  large  island  that  here 
divides  the  current  nearly  equally.  From  this  drive  is  obtained 
another  map-like  idea  of  the  river  land  property  of  the  syndicate, 
which  includes  the  better  portion  of  the  territory  lying  between 
the  mountain  and  the  stream.  The  configuration  of  the  land  with 
the  several  ridges  of  beautiful  hills  and  their  intervening  valleys, 
so  admirably  adapted  for  the  best  residence  sites,  is  particularly 
well  exhibited  from  here. 

The  top  of  Walden's  Ridge  is  a  broad  and  long  plateau, 
the  land  slightly  rolling,  with  here  and  there  a  brook  bordered  with 
laurels,  laden  with  their  flower  clusters  of  pure,  porcelain-like 
white  or  faintly  flushed  with  a  lovely  roseate  tint,  and  with  the 
superb  rhododendrons  displaying  their  great  blossoms  of  delicate 
lilac.  With  appetites  whetted  by  the  pure  mountain  air,  we  take 
our  lunch  at  a  spot  originally  called  Burnt  Cabin  spring,  now 
called  Camp  Hodder,  where  chalybeate  water,  sweet  and  cool,  as 
well  as  of  excellent  medicinal  quality,  trickles  out  of  a  charming 
nook  in  the  rocks.  Then  we  take  a  look  at  some  of  the  coal 
veins,  openings  in  some  of  which  have  been  made,  in  order  to 
show  the  coal.  There  are  in  Walden's  Ridge  eight  of  these  coal 
beds,  lying  horizontally.  Three  of  these  are  thick,  and  of  the  best 
quality  of  coking  and  fuel  coal. 

The  Suburbs  Along  the  North  Side  of  tne  River. 

Close  acquaintance  confirms  our  impression  of  the  remark- 
able value  for  commercial  and  manufacturing  purposes  of  the 
great  open  tract  occupying  Moccasin  bend  and  the  land  all  along 
the  river.  The  hilly  lands  near  the  city  are  inexpressibly  beauti- 
ful, and  invite  to  the  establishment  of  a  suburban  quarter  which 
shall  be  a  second  Brookline,  with  the  advantages  of  an  abundance 
of  trees  and  opportunity  for  the  making  of  winding  roads  amidst 
ever  changing  scenery,  so  that  almost  at  once  the  place  would  be 
exceptionally  attractive.  Opposite  the  city,  on  the  land  above  the 
proposed  bridge,  the  uplands  expand  into  a  tract  of  broader  hills, 
with  valleys  intervening,  and  containing  some  of  the  most  fas- 
cinating sites  for  first  class  residences,  and,  with  the  building  of 
the  bridge  and  the  establishment  of  rapid  transit,  this  territory 
will  be  within  a  few  minutes  of  the  center  of  Chattanooga.  A 
landscape  engineer,  of  European  reputation,  has  been  specially 
engaged  to  plat  this  property,  so  as  to  preserve  its  natural  beau- 
ties and  at  the  same  time  add  the  convenience  and  charm  of  the 
highest  art  in  his  profession.  The  work  is  going  on  rapidly  and 
gives  great  promise  of  all  that  may  be  expected. 


EPITOME  OF  SOUTfl&Hf  fteSVFTCES'.    '  15 

More  Facts  Concerning  Southern  Resources. 

While  the  growth  of  Chattanooga  has  undoubtedly  been 
marvelous,  it  has  not  been  the  only  city  or  town  which  has  felt 
the  magic  touch  of  improvement,  and  this  fact  alone  is  good  evi- 
dence that  the  growth  is  largely  due  to  the  development  of  the 
natural  resources  of  the  section.  Let  us  for  a  moment  briefly 
glance  at  these,  and  see  if  in  them  we  do  not  find  the  secret. 

For  our  investigation,  we  will  take  the  surrounding  coun- 
try within  a  radius  of,  sa}-  100  miles,  and  we  find  lying  to  the 
north  an  immense  coal  field,  the  largest,  and  in  point  of  tonnage, 
the  richest  coal  field  in  America,  if  not  in  the  world. 

Here  is  a  territory  embracing  perhaps  as  much  as  ten 
thousand  square  miles,  almost  solidly  underlaid  with  this  valuable 
mineral,  capable  of  yielding  so  many  millions  of  tons  as  to  stag- 
ger the  coolest  statistician.  This  coal  has  by  practical  test,  and 
laboratory  experiments  been  proven  of  a  very  high  quality,  fully 
meeting  all  the  requirements  of  the  steam  maker,  the  iron  master, 
and  the  domestic  hearthstone. 

Contiguous  and  accessible  to  the  same  field  lie  immense 
stores  of  excellent  iron  ores  and  all  the  necessary  limestone  for 
fluxing. 

Besides  these  the  timber  growing  on  the  lands  is  of  an  ex- 
cellent quality — hardwoods — and  in  enormous  quantity. 

This  region  is  already  penetrated  by  numerous  and  liber- 
ally managed  railroads,  and  is  intersected  by  many  valuable 
streams  affording  both  water  power  and  water  transportation. 

Now,  turning  our  eyes  eastward,  we  find  a  territory  simi- 
lar in  area,  if  possible  even  better  provided  with  large  streams, 
and  embracing  within  its  confines,  the  heaviest  growth,  the  great- 
est variety,  and  the  finest  qualities  of  hardwood  timbers  to  be 
found  on  this  continent.  This  district  also  embraces  vast  deposits 
of  minerals,  such  as  gold,  lead,  zinc,  copper,  corundum,  mica , 
manganese,  plumbago,  talc,  slate,  marbles — various  colors  and 
qualities — and  the  greatest  and  most  persistent  veins  of  magnetic 
iron  ore  known.  It  is  also  the  paradise  of  the  angler  and  gunner. 

A  similar  district  south,  would  embrace  much  of  the  same 
characteristics,  with  in  addition,  the  cream  of  the  upland  cotton 
belt. 

To  the  west  we  find  again  the  coal,  iron,  building  stones, 
and  fertile  agricultural  lands. 

With  all  these  resources;  with  an  agreeable  and  moderate 
climate,  with  a  reliable  class  and  cheaply  bought  supply  of  raw 
materials;  with  abundant,  cheap  and  easily  controlled  labor, 
whose  tendency  is  towards  conservative  regularity,  guaranteeing 
immunity  from  strikes  and  other  labor  disturbances;  is  it  any  won- 
der that  the  eyes  of  every  manufacturer  not  so  favorably  located, 
are  turned  to  this  happy  land,  when  in  search  of  a  location,  or 
with  anxiety  as  to  the  result  of  its  competition? 

The  coal  miner,  the  coke  maker,  the  iron  master,  the  lum- 
berman, the  furniture  maker,  the  wool  grower,  the  wool  manu- 
facturer, as  well  as  all  the  cotton  manufacturing  interests,  must 
either  find  a  home  here  or  suffer  from  its  competition. 


16  W.   C.  GREEN  &  CO.'S  EPITOME  OF  SOUTHERN  RESOURCES. 

All  these  industrial  interests,  with  all  their  sub-interests 
and  branches  can  best  be  prosecuted,  and  should  seek  this  their 
natural  home. 

While  it  is  true  that  the  Cumberland  field — the  southern 
end  of  the  great  Appalachian  coal  fields — does  not  contain  all  the 
coal  tributary  to  this  city,  it  is  so  enormous  in  quantity  and  so 
superior  in  quality  as  to  completely  overshadow  all  others.  Geo- 
logical reports  place  the  number  of  workable  veins  in  this  field  at 
9 — some  at  n — but  selecting  but  one,  the  great  Sewanee  vein, 
varying  in  thickness  from  9  to  12^-  feet,  and  a  square  acre,  esti- 
mating a  cubic  yard  to  the  ton,  would  yield  over  350,000  tons. 
The  multiplication  of  the  whole  field  is  too  enormous  a  product 
for  contemplation. 

IRON. 

The  various  iron  ores  of  this  region  comprise  all  the  va- 
rieties of  Red  and  Brown  Hematites,  Limonite,  Black  Band, 
Magnetic  and  Manganiferous.  These  are  all  located  within  such  a' 
short  distance  of  each  other,  and  so  connected  with  each  other  by 
transportation  facilities,  as  to  be  practically  almost  united.  To 
an  iron  manufacturer,  a  furnace  man,  these  points  are  of  vital  in- 
terest, as  their  contiguity  enables  him  to,  at  will,  predetermine 
the  character  of  the  iron  he  will  make,  and  not  the  kind  of  iron 
he  must  make. 

COPPER,  LEAD,  ZINC  AND  SILVER 
are  undoubtedly  to  be  found  in  paying  quantities  in    most  of  the 
mountain    counties   of  Tennessee   and    North   Carolina,  and   are 
destined  to  become  important  sources  of  revenue,  and  consequent- 
ly feeders  to  the  wealth  of  this  central  city. 

GOLD 

is  quite  abundant  in  the  streams  of  Western  North  Carolina  and 
North  Georgia,  and  even  with  the  most  crude  appliances,  yields 
from  $5  to  $15  per  day  per  man. 

MARBLE. 

This  is  found  in  large  supply  in  the  eastern  counties  of  this 
state;  and  the  greatest  quantity  and  the  best  qualities  are  not  yet 
touched  upon,  the  industry  being  practically  in  its  infancy.  West- 
ern North  Carolina,  embracing  the  five  or  six  counties  of  the 
extreme  western  part,  and  about  the  same  in  Georgia,  and  espe- 
cially tributary  to.  Chattanooga,  probably  contains  a  greater 
amount,  more  varieties  and  as  fine  qualities  of  marble,  than  any 
similar  area  in  America.  This  is  practically — so  far  as  mineralo- 
gical  development  goes — a  terra  incognita,  and  will  yield  surpris- 
ing results  to  the  investment  of  capital  and  energy. 

SLATE. 

Several  counties  in  Georgia,  as  many  in  North  Carolina, 
and  perhaps  three  or  four  in  Tennessee,  can  show  slate  in  such 
quantities  and  qualities  as  will  justify  larger  investments  .and  the 
erection  of  works  for  its  use. 

Soapstone,  Ochres,  Fire  Clays,  Kaoline,  Etc. 

are  found  near  at  hand,  of  fine  quality  and  may  be  counted  on  as 
sources  of  wealth. 


"Come  South,  Tnog  Han,  Come  South,"  and  Partake  of  its  Prosperity ! 

NOW   IS   THE  TIME  TO  INVEST  IN  CHATTANOOGA,  AND  IN  SOUTHERN 
TIMBER,  MINERAL  AND  FARMING  LANDS. 


Land  is  cheap  now,  and  opportunities  are  great;  but  the  land  is  rising  rapidly 
in  value,  and  the  opportunities  are  being  swiftly  snapped  up. 


IN  TEN  YEAES  OR  LESS  IT  WILL  TAEE  FROM.  $10  TO  $100  TO  BUY  WHAT  CAN  NOW  BE  HAD 
FOR  $1.     THIS  IS  NO  EXAGGERATION,  BUT  IS  SOBER  TRUTH,  AND  SHOULD  NOT 
BE  OVERLOOKED  OR  FORGOTTEN,  BUT  IMMEDIATE  ADVANTAGE   - 
SHOULD   BE  TAEEN  OF  THE  FACT. 


"A   WORD   TO   THE   WISE    IS   SUFFICIENT." 


The  progress  the  South  has  made  during  the  past  few  years  has  been 
wonderful,  and  the  growth  of  Chattanooga  has  been  almost  phenomenal. 
But  great  as  these  advances  have  been,  there  are  certain  events  that  have  re- 
cently transpired  that  indicate  that  we  are  on  the  eve  of  a  still  more  rapid  ad- 
vancement and  more  wonderful  development  than  ever  before. 

Among  the  notable  indications  of  a  generally  increased  future  prosperity 
of  the  South,  may  be  mentioned  the  visits  to  this  section  of  Northern  and 
Eastern  capitalists  in  car  loads  during  the  past  few  months  041  prospecting 
tours,  resulting  uniformly  in  expressions  by  them  of  unqualified  surprise  and 
wonder  at  the  extent  of  Southern  resources,  and  in  the  making  of  heavy  in- 
vestments by  them  at  different  points.  This  has  served  to  advertise  the  vast 
advantages  of  the  South  to  an  extent  far  greater  than  ever  before,  and  will 
undoubtedly  turn  vast  streams  of  capital  this  way  for  investment,  giving  this 
section  a  new  impulse  of  growth  beyond  all  precedent. 

As  to  Chattanooga,  the  indications  that  she  is  on  the  eve  of  an  era  of 
vastly  increased  prosperity  and  of  accelerated  growth  are  patent  to  every 
citizen. 

FIRST. — The  visits  of  the  above  mentioned  capitalists  and  the  heavy  in- 
vestments some  of  them  have  already  made  in  this  vicinity,  notably  the  in- 
vestment of  $2,000,000  directly  across  the  river,  and  the  prospective  invest- 
ment there  by  them  of  another  $1,000,000. 

SECOND. — The  purchase  of  the  river  steamers  by  a  Connecticut  syndicate, 
and  the  systematizing  and  improvement  of  the  business. 

THIRD. — The  investment  at  Fort  Payne,  and  other  towns  tributary  to 
Chattanooga,  of  several  millions  of  dollars. 

FOURTH. — The  putting  on  of  accommodation  trains  by  all  the  railroads 
centering  at  Chattanooga,  vastly  enhancing  the  business  of  the  city. 

FIFTH.— The  organizing  of  four  new  railroads  to  be  completed  in  the 
near  future. 

SIXTH. — The  prospective  opening  of  the  "Muscle  Shoals"  in  the  Ten- 
nessee river  in  September  next,  giving  us  water  communication  with  all  in- 
terior points  on  the  continent,  and  regulating  and  reducing  railroad  freights. 

SEVENTH. — The  building  of  several  bridges  across  the  river  at  this  point 
within  the  next  few  months. 

EIGHTH. — The  voting,  by  an  immense  majority,  of  $700,000  in  bonds  to 
improve  our  streets. 

NINTH. — The  great  increase  in  heavy  real  estate  sales  to  outside  capital- 
ists and  investors  within  the  past  60  days. 

TENTH.— The  National  Park  of  7,000  acres  to  be  established  on  the 
Chickamauga  Battle  Field,  eight  miles 'south  of  the  city. 

All  these  and  many  other  facts  foreshadow  great  things  in  the  near  future 
for  Chattanooga  and  the  South. 


W.  C.  GREEN. 


GEO.  S.  GREEN. 


W.  G. 


W^         ^* 

.^^Y  Jj^LL  PERSONS  who  desire   to   make  profitable   in- 

^^ (g L  vestments  or  to  change  their  places  of  residence,  or 

to  remove  their  factories  or  other  business  to  more 
profitable  fields,  should  at  once  open  a  correspondence 
with  us. 


"W".     O.    GrRIEEN    <&    OOV 
Q19    Oeorgia,   -A.ve_3 


REFERENCES  : 

THE  TRUST  &  BANKtNG  CO. 
THIRD  NATIONAL  BANK. 


CHAS.  HITE  SMITH, 


Goal,  Ore,  Timbef  and  Stone 


20  East  Eighth  Street,          CHATTANOOGA,  TENN, 


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